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The Cabinet today approved the allocation of NIS 19 billion for transferring IDF bases from the center of the country to the Negev. The move will continue until 2018. Intelligence Corps units and bases will move to the Lakit-Omer installation; communications bases will move to the scientific park in Be'er Sheva.
Financing for the move will be as follows: The Finance Ministry will allocate NIS 9 billion, and the Defense Ministry NIS 4 billion. The remaining NIS 6 billion will be provided for from returns on the marketing of the lands of the evacuating bases in the center of the country.
The move will evacuate land in the center of the country upon which it will be possible to build tens of thousands of housing units. This will facilitate the creation of thousands of new jobs and the transfer of quality populations to the Negev where they will contribute to the social development of the area.
The Government approved the project of moving IDF units in 2005, but the heart of the move – Intelligence Corps and communication units – was delayed due to a disagreement between the relevant ministries over the size and sources of the necessary budgets. Today's decision will enable these units to move south.
The process of transferring IDF bases to the Negev is in keeping with the Government's goals of advancing and strengthening the periphery and its previous decision to allocate NIS 27 billion to the national roads project, in the framework of which highways and rail lines to the Negev will be expanded.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said that, "This historic step will greatly contribution to the IDF and the security establishment, as well as to the Negev and its residents. My Government will continue to act to strengthen the Negev and the Galilee with national projects in the spheres of transportation, construction, infrastructures, community settlement, employment, education and any sphere that will advance and strengthen these areas."
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